Roberta Flack Quotes

• That’s a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

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• So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize – yours, not anybody else’s.

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• Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you’re not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

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• Our criteria for deciding what’s good and what’s bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

  Roberta Flack

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• Once you’re successful with a certain kind of music, it’s hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

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• My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today’s music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

  Roberta Flack

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• I’ve been overweight all my life.

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• I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

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• I didn’t know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I’d worked on and perfected.

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• Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

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• As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it’s important that we use that voice wisely.

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Roberta Flack (11)

Birth:	10th February, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist, Singer

About

Roberta Flack is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is notable for jazz, soul, R&B, and folk music. Roberta Flack is best known for her Hot 100 #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin' Love", as well as "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway.

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Births

• 1976 - Paz Vega
• 1905 - Michael Tippett
• 1956 - Lynda Barry
• 1865 - William Lyon Phelps
• 1938 - Robert Smithson

Deaths

• 2007 - Robert C. Solomon
• 1917 - Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
• 1963 - Dick Powell